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Take Five is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Michael Zager Band, Paul Desmond, Joe Morello and Dave Brubeck. Those roots explain a lot about how Take Five arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Carmen McRae, Grover Washington Jr., Val Bennett and Al Jarreau, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 8 connections around Take Five, reaching back through Michael Zager Band and forward to Carmen McRae. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
"Take Five" is a jazz standard composed by Paul Desmond and originally recorded in 1959 by the Dave Brubeck Quartet for their album Time Out. Written in quintuple time, the composition is built around a distinctive blues-scale melody in E♭ minor and a recurring two-chord vamp. It became the third track on Time Out, which was released by Columbia Records later that year.
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Take Five connections
Take Five grew out of Michael Zager Band, Paul Desmond, Joe Morello and Dave Brubeck, went on to shape Carmen McRae, Grover Washington Jr., Val Bennett and Al Jarreau. 8 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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